ANALYSIS. 



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other hand, those with superior ovaries may be first 

 separated into such as have a great many stamens, 

 and such as have only a small and certain number. 

 Of the former you have the Crowfoot and the Poppy 

 tribe, the first of which has several distinct carpels, 

 and the last all the carpels grown together into a 

 hollow case ; of the latter the Geranium tribe has the 

 cai'pels separating from a long hard beak-like centre, 

 the Cruciferous tribe has six stamens of which four 

 are longer than the others, the Violet tribe has anthers 

 with a membranous crest, and a fruit splitting into 

 three valves, to the middle of which the seeds are 

 fastened. This will be still clearer to you if put into 

 the shape of a table. 



Ovary inferior 



Parts in fours — Evening Primroses. 



T3 u. i. f Flowersinumbels— L^/rt^e////e/'0!<,sP/««/*. 

 Parts not \ •' 



V. Flowers not in umbels— 3/yr^/e*. 



i carpels separate — Crowfoots. 

 a great many 7 



stamens \ carpels joined into |^ „ 



^ a hollow case ) ^^ 



Ovary superior < 



-carpels sepa- 

 rating from 

 a long beak 



Geraniums. 



few 

 stamens'^ carpels not f Five Stamens — Violets. 



separating 7 c? • i. a 



A °< &LX stamens, J ^ .^ 



I I . <. 1 • 1 f Lrvciferous 

 ,^j^^t^^ of which ^ P/««^*. 



from a 

 Ions beak I 



are short 



This table is of no other use than to shew you how- 

 to analyse the characters of the subjects you examine ; 

 it does not give you, as you must remark, a correct 



